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Cindy - Thank you so much for this information. I'm glad that people with strong resumes are willing to invest their time and effort in the ACBL.

I am not a member of your district, but I hope that you will go beyond your statement above and talk about what you would do as a Board of Directors member, particularly on governance issues.

Is the BoD an effective governing body in his current structure? If not, how should it be changed - for example, board size, use of technology, transparency to the board in full and to the general membership?

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If you really want this accusation to be taken seriously, then:

1) Provide a motive - what possible reason would there be for the bot programmer to do this? Unless the BBO Bots have achieved sentience, they don't care if your contract succeeds or fails.2) Provide some evidence - do an experiment of some number of hands and show that pauses correlate to hands where changing cards between defenders would have had an effect on the outcome, i.e. the Woolsey Standard.

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You would lose your bet. When I inquired to a director about when we would know the qualifier list, she explained that they were working on combining the databases and that it would take some time. While I would like to see the process get better, I've never had problems getting information out of the directing staff.

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I participated in this event as well (finished ahead of Yu by a massive 1 VP). I think it would be great to have all Swiss run this way.

One area for improvement is that when the last score of the round is entered, the pairings were made with no chance for score corrections and the BridgeMates didn't confirm how it had scored the matches (fortunately, there were no problems with that in this event). I would like to see after a match is completed, the BridgeMates display the IMP comparison for the match with each team then able to confirm at their home table. This would add some time, but I think it would be offset by the removal of confusion if someone mis-entered a board and added a bunch of unearned IMPs to a team.

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This really isn't a matter for a poll, just reading the laws:

Law 64A.2When a revoke is established and the trick on which the revoke occurred was not won by the offending player then, ifthe offending side won that or any subsequent trick, after play ends one trick is transferred to the non-offending side.

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@Giovanni: France had automatic qualification as the host of the event, which did not count against the Europeans zone's six allocated slots. So the top six teams, not including France, qualified from the Euro Championships.

@Spencer: There used to be a provision for the defending champion to Bermuda Bowl but that was eliminated after the 1977 BB where the Defenders from USA met the North American team (also from USA) in the finals.